How many other aspies here don't have their drivers license?

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I don't have a driving license and i have no interest in driving a car at the monment maybe later in life but not now though.

I'll never be able to drive. Bad eyesight, see?

In many ways I'm quite contented with that. Everyone else can drive me around instead.

"To the mall, Jeeves." I like saying that to my husband as a joke but he never thinks it's funny.

Quoting CowboyFromHell:


But you see, they all had their chairs lined up in a row facing me as if they were in a movie theater. I realize I am too sensitive at times (most of the time) especially when it involves having someone observing me when I am trying to learn something new or figure out how something works in order to fix it . Once I even told a boss "Don't stand there watching me please." The copy machine kept jamming and she asked me if I could fix it. She looked at me as if she couldn't believe I had just told her to get lost and then she walked away muttering something under her breath.

Wow, the number of non-drivers here is almost unanimous. I have a mild form of Aspergers that doesn't really affect my motor skills. I learned to drive just fine. To me driving is a form of relaxation to me. Since I'm a loner, there's nothing better for me then to be able to go where I want to go by myself with no limitations. I don't have to ask any people to drive me anywhere. I own a GPS so that I don't get lost because I'm not that great with directions. I will admit I have very limited driving experience on the highway because I never have to drive that far but driving in towns is very simple. I think for those with Aspergers, anyone would be able to drive in places that they feel comfortable with pretty easily like small towns; very easy routes with no extra lanes. On the highway, I'm sure that would be a different story.

I don't/won't drive for the same reason I don't/won't stand near the edge of a cliff.
One wrong move and it's all over.

im 29 and i still dont have it, i keep telling myself 'oh yeah you'll get it anytime when in actuallity i probably wont LOL

I don't have one. Can't drive because it's too much multitasking.

Have one, but driving isn't for me and I'm 17 years old! I should be spending like 6-10 hrs in my car like a normal teen, but I'm not normal . Driving freaks me out too much.

Nope (I'm not an "aspie" (I hate that word), even if the magical diagnosing fairy says I have Asperger's Disorder at this time).

Can't take the written test as I lose my ability to function when I get to the place (too overwhelmed with the car trip and the people in the building), plus I have no motivation or desire to drive. I don't like cars either.

I doubt I will ever get one. I'm 28.

I have a firearms license though. Go-go special interest.

I'm officially diagnosed and I got my license the week of my 16th birthday, although I took the test in a small town and it was fairly simple. I had a lot of trouble during the driver's ed part of the process however and I only truly got the hang of it the week before the test, after a lot of training with my step dad. I'm still a pretty crummy driver though (I find it amazingly easy to get lost) and I try to avoid long trips as best I can.

I have had my drivers licence since i was 16 and got my permit when i was 15. however, i lost my licence for 2 years a while back due to reckless driving. i am driving again now, but i am required to have a psychriactic evaluation once a year with a doctors note saying i am still allowed to drive.

I don't drive although I own a car and have my learners license I still don't seem to have the motivation or "drive " to do something about it. I am 33 and I first started learning when I was 17 then stopped for a long time and took it up again recently.

The hardest thing for me about not driving is that I get a hassled alot about how I should be driving, how people don't understand why I can't drive and why I don't just go and take the test.

But the reality is that it scares the hell out of me!! I remember a couple of months ago I was driving my car to work one morning with my husband and for a few seconds I completely spaced out, I think I completely forgot I was driving. My mind went somewhere else and I almost crashed.

Very scary stuff that!! ! I don't trust myself.

My ASD diagnosis is only recent and is not completely official because it was given by a counselor and not by a psychiatrist so no one other than my husband knows I have these issues.

I'm 50+ and have never had a license. Tried to learn to drive when I was young but just never got it; too much stuff happening at the same time. I've also been told that I'm a terrible passenger as I tend to yell 'look out' quite often.

I don't have one but I'm pretty young. I do intend to get one eventually. The laws here are pretty bs so it would of cost a bunch of money to drive before age 18 here. It's been subject of discussion for few years now but nobody ever gets around to teaching me. I'm not exactly pushing hard for anyone one to teach me either. Driving in the big city isn't very appealing to me.

I got mine at 26, it was very hard for me to get it, but after some time driving turned into some of my pleasures.
Driving along a road is like a therapy for me.

Having never been through any treatment as an adult, and having emmigrated to the states eight or so years ago, a lot of the things I read on here never occured to me as symptoms of my 'exciting brain wiring', my personal euphemism for my NOSyness, I have driving nightmares. I had a learners permit 5 years ago that expired without my learning a thing. My excuse to friends is that the control system for cars is archaic and needlessly complex. 'I will learn to drive once I can do so with a gamecube controller.'